Originally Posted by
HWB
In a lot of ways, Hesitation Marks was sorta samiliar to the 90s album in sound as well, it didn't have the aggression TDS was known for at all but it marked the return to a bigger focus on electronics and a return to this "full" deep production with a lot of layers, and I felt like that 2000s albums were more minimal and had a certain feeling of being immediate but that was by design. I think Hesitation Marks was a big step stowards The Trilogy. It may not be obvious at first since it's really not noisy and Trent doesn't scream but apart from that I can hear some TDS in it, with how the song are build, are structured and how many layers there are. I spoke about this before, I think, but I think this opinion belongs here too.